{"id":1386,"date":"2008-04-27T02:25:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T02:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2008-04-27T02:25:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T02:25:46","slug":"running_with_the_shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/27\/running_with_the_shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Running with the Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming home tonight after a late evening out, I was thinking about this song:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/He_sPiqS_Ww?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Pat Benatar&#8217;s &#8220;Shadows of the Night,&#8221; if you don&#8217;t know it. I&#8217;ve always liked this one; it&#8217;s probably my favorite Benatar tune, even though it was one of her lesser hits and seems to be somewhat unknown these days (at least, I rarely hear it out there in the world; whenever the oldies station &#8212; sigh &#8212; plays a Benatar song, it&#8217;s almost invariably either &#8220;Hit Me with Your Best Shot&#8221; or &#8220;Love Is a Battlefield&#8221;). I groove on its combination of romantic melody and rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll bombast, I guess. I vaguely remembered the video showed her in a cockpit singing into an old-fashioned microphone, but wow, it turns out to be quite the little epic, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>A couple of thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know what kind of planes are featured in Pat&#8217;s daydream, but they&#8217;re <i>not<\/i> P-51 Mustangs, as shown on that poster she&#8217;s looking at in the framing scenes.<\/li>\n<li>This was made in 1982, the year after <i>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/i> came out. Could the Nazi theme have possibly been inspired by <i>Raiders<\/i>&#8216; success? It seem like there were a lot of Nazis and 1930s\/1940s things in pop culture around that time, but did <i>Raiders<\/i> begin that or was it merely another example of the same zeitgeist?<\/li>\n<li>Did you catch <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judge_Reinhold\">Judge Reinhold<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Paxton\">Bill Paxton<\/a> as the pilot in the red cap and the Nazi radio operator, respectively?<\/li>\n<li>And finally, is it just me or are women in 1940s-style flying gear damn sexy? Maybe it&#8217;s me&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming home tonight after a late evening out, I was thinking about this song: That&#8217;s Pat Benatar&#8217;s &#8220;Shadows of the Night,&#8221; if you don&#8217;t know it. I&#8217;ve always liked this one; it&#8217;s probably my favorite Benatar tune, even though it was one of her lesser hits and seems to be somewhat unknown these days (at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}